Yeah, it was a dumb scene that made no sense of her character. She wanted to show she had faith I guess.
Reminds me of the scene from the movie Contact where a priest and a scientist have sex, talk about faith, and then she throws a rosary at him to prove she has faith ... to the guy she slept with outside of marriage...
Rich people divorce? Ah yes, smell the manure.
The driving game reporting will be way better at least.
There's also pictures of Christ, random drawings, and Christian i.agery being blocked for sexual and violent imagery.
Reminds me of an article about fighting the "College is a Scam" mindscape. Written by academics who don't want to face their reality.
It's not the black neighborhoods wanting this. I have a friend that runs an architecture firm, and is mostly black owned and run. He knows these neighborhoods really well because politicians and rich people keep wanting to build skyscrapers in the bloody area. I've arranged meetings for us to meet when the Orlando Magic are playing and there's a big party near Lake Eola to watch people walk through the area. We will have students and architects all crying over the terrible racist division.
I get invited to help design stuff because is am a historian/anthropologist and then a designer. Every time I come up with answers, I'm told the only answer is big parks, bulldozing houses, and rich people pretending to be ethnic. They want to destroy one of the oldest black highschools in the state. Wesley Snipes graduated from there. I helped redesign their museum.
It is purely rich people crying racism as they destroy black neighborhoods. Almost every time you read about it, that's what's actually happening.
There's regular roads under the freeways. It's easy to walk through.
I know what's happening here, because we have it in Orlando. The I-4, not the I5 back in Seattle, cuts the skyscraper part of the city away from a residential area. That area is mostly black, and has been that way for generations. People who want more skyscrapers want to bulldoze the residential area, and are looking for a political opinion that sounds plausible. They say the freeway separates whites from blacks, and that we need to reconnect the two areas.
There are office buildings, and major companies already in the area, including the part of EA that makes Madden. Heck, the Orlando Magic play on the black side of town. The local football club has their stadium on this side.
Black people go into the urban part to party or hang out, and then head home. There is no disconnect by any standard use of observation. I am still told quite often that we need to reconnect the divide, and every single person involved wants to build a giant building. It's purely architects looking for a job.
Cour d'Alene is also where gun owners stopped rioters.
It's amazing to watch as people yell at those they can't control.
I lived in Middleton ID when it was the area people ran to get away from the cops. I buried my cat in an open field that is now covered by suburbia.
The entire Northwest just slowly decayed and it's hard to describe the feeling of living there. Everything I loved was destroyed, and although I still have stuff I love, I'm scared to do it because of the other problems.
Central Florida is growing in waves. A friend in Oviedo used to live with hicks and sticks, and is now living in a big upper middle class neighborhood. He hasn't moved. I have bears near my house, the cowardly kind not the grizzlies, and a lot of cockroaches. I have been told directly that in the next five years it will be like Oviedo.
Phoenix is insane. I have friends that remember Surprise being far away from the valley. I lived when surprise was expected to join it any year now. Now the valley goes beyond Surprise.
Have all the tirades
AI: Propaganda: Justine Bateman
During the Hollywood strike one woman claims to be a computer scientist and actress. She thinks Hollywood needs to outlaw AI or actors will be gone soon. So she supports the strike. She dislikes the term content
Here's another anti content.
This is her saying actors will have their faces rented for cheap to movies.
This is her saying Hollywood demands AI take over.
Here's another horror filled anti AI thread. These are going around my lefty friends a lot. Even a few lawyers.
A real complaint by the strikers in Hollywood last year was that AI could make old shows with all of the characters. I don't think they understood how much of a selling point that was.
It's all acting. Pretending to hate him to build up numbers is sort of the game.
Do I get another Ninja Batman?
They were adapted by the Arabs and really look nothing alike anymore. Check out the water engineering systems that went back and forth between India and south east Asia. They had some really cool ideas.
I'm not denying you that. I'm saying the equipment and programs needed is about $10,000, and the time it takes to create, render, and edit takes about 6 months. I'm sure the next project will take two, but that initial process always takes longer than expected.
And then Sora is shown off to Hollywood.
I think a good movie would cost about $10,000 to make and 6 months to finish. It can be made by a single person.
I graduated in 2001, and my highschool.had a Jewish club, but not a Christian one. Since I was white, had a German looking last name, and was in the gifted program they assumed I was part of it. I was the club treasurer. Never went to a meeting. Holocaust memorial week was very awkward.
The BPA was not Business Professionals of America, but Black People of America. They looked at me weird when I said I won state the year before.
There was a Queer club. I wasn't part of that. I do know the entire school supported it and tried to act like they were some kind of hypersexual person.
Ooo, I want to see the juicy source on this. Historians love to have stuff disproven.
That was a really fun movie, and it makes me want to read the book. The main character is an actual historical figure who may or may not have met the Vikings. He met a people that he had to work with, but kind of hated them. He complained about them in his writings a lot. The cleaning bowl scene was based on his complaints. The problem is, we don't actually know if those were the Vikings or another group. Since he was from South West Asia, he really didn't know or care that Europeans had different cultures. If it was the Scandinavian peoples, he has the most prolific information on them.
A big problem with Vikings is that it's all outsiders points of view. Even the Icelandic texts are from a century or so after, and was written more for entertainment than historical accuracy. We have some writings, but it's mostly small comments.
Here's the part people have a hard time understanding, even historians, the Vikings adapted to the cultures around them. We have their colonial housing in Canada, but coins have been found in the Southern US. Very likely the people who stayed married into the cultures there and disappeared. Could they arrive in the Mediterranean and even further south? Sure, but it wouldn't look like the Vikings you imagined. This is why it's so hard to figure out if that guy actually met them. BTW, his complaints were likely that of an aristocrat from a religiously run culture complaining that these people didn't follow his ceremonial washing and cleaning. By all other scores the Vikings were very clean. At one point Normans attacked Vikings because they were too good looking.
I think Totilo has his own sub stack now. Most of the journalists are trying for substance and other status.
Refugee from Seattle. Mental disability of having a high IQ. Am I autistic, OCD, or just German?
I remember a waitress in Portland who acted really over the top black. When I asked her why? Especially since the actual black population of the area didn't act that way, she said it almost felt required. That's a weird thing when you're a super small minority, you compensate by acting the most stereotypical you can.
Also, was this Tacompton?